CVE-1999-0872

Summary

CVE-1999-0872 is a significant vulnerability affecting the Vixie cron daemon. This issue permits local users to exploit a buffer overflow weakness in the software's handling of overly long MAILTO environment variables found in crontab files. Successful exploitation could result in the attacker gaining root access to the system. This vulnerability was identified in 1999 and poses a serious risk to systems using the Vixie cron implementation with unsecured crontab files. It is crucial for system administrators to apply patches or updates to mitigate this risk and restrict environment variable length to prevent potential attacks.

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